Manifold ticket



sept. 2-, 1924, mamas G. H. BAUGHMAN MANIFOLD TICKET mm mm. 2. 1923 1 2 Shanta-Shoot 1.

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' GEORGE E. BAUGHIELAN, 0F CHIGAGQ, 3161421? SIS.

MANH'QLJD TICKET.

Appllcetion filed April 2, 1923. Serial 629,486.

To 1252 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BAUGH MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State Illinois, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in e, Manifold Ticket, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to manifold tickets, such as are used in the listing of purchases made by customers in mercantile estsbl-ishments', or in making out What-are known as .bills of hiding, or any other service that may require that a plurality of similar tickets be made out simultaneously by the clerk or agent. This is usually done by providing a. series of tickets in a set and interlesving carbon or manifold sheets be tween them so that when the clerk or agent makes out thetop or original ticket and the items and notations made thereon will a. peer upon the other sheets of the series. lumerous methods have been devised for conveniently stacking a number of these duplicating sets and securing them. in pad form so that the sheets-may be torn off as used, but heretofore such methods have generally proven unsatisfactory because the persons using the tickets become careless in detaching the tickets or sets of tickets from the pa d so that not infrequently one or more of the tickets belonging to the. next succeeding set are accidentally detached, thus spoiling said next set and causing confusion and loss of time.

With my improved manner of constructing the tickets and assembling them. in each set, and a very simple Way of placing the sets in blocks or pad form, I an) able to overcome most, if not all, of the inherent objections to the present styles of manifolding tickets, and I am also able. to produce the tickets in sets so that the carbon or maniiolding' sheets may be e. sily, quickly and correctly interleaved. Also the assembly is such that after the interleaving of the carbon sheets and the detachment of the sets from the pad the sheets or tickets are in convenient shape for ready insertion in a typewriter to be filled in by the operator. 1 am also able to produce at meniitolding ticket set that will not readily become disassembled, but when it is necessary to detach or separate tickets from the set to distribute the respective tickets they may satisfactorily detached either singly without disturbing any of the remaining tickets or the entire set separated. This letter is especially desirable with bills of leding Where they are made out by the shipper, taken by the dreyinsn to the iz'silroedv depot where they are signed by the agent who detaches and retains one ticket, and the drayman must return the original and copy to the shipper, who sends the original-to the consignee after detaching the duplicate to retain in his files.

I prefer to carry out my invention in substantially the manner herei Rafter described, and as pointed out in the claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawings that form a part of this specifics tion. in. Which- Fig. 1 is a perspective of s pad formed of a plurality of ticket sets, the tickets of the top set and the carbon sheets being partially opened. I

Fig. :2 is a perspective view of a set of tickets detached from the pad.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of 21. set of tickets, drawn to an exaggerated. scale, showing only the outer folded end thereof.

Figures 4, S'and 6 are schematic views illustrating divers manners of assembling the tickets to form tripliceting sets.

While my invention may be employed in divers manners, l have, for the purpose of convenience, illustrated the some in connection with a pad and sets of tickets for bills of lading which is a typical and preferred embodiment of the principles thereof.

Referring to first to Fig. 1, which shows a pad formed of a plurality oibill oi ladin sets, one ticket of each set being provided with an extension or stub 10, from which the set of tickets may be detached along the line of perforations 11, and said stubs are superposed upon each other and securedtogether by staples 12 upon a back 13 of straw-board, and, if desired, a biudingtape may enclosethis end of the pad. consists of three tickets, A, B and C, designating, respectively, the top or original recc ipt of abill of hiding, the intermediate or agents receipt, and the bottom or shippers duplicate. The required bill of hiding forms are printed upon the respective tickets, but it will be understood that any desired form may be used especially where the tickets are for itemizin the purchases of customers in stores, and the like.

As seen in the drawings, two or" the ticlc The set strip 17, as $8811 in Figure of the Li cits for ctss, preferably A liihii L, are Inn jig? from a single sheet or strip of paper that; folded zipy'n'oximntcly (:cnlriiiiy upon ilsoli on one of tho n-wmm lines of pcri'orntions 1.4. The olhor lick c5 ii is ii-owned with trainsvorso pcrl'oi'atimis 35 adjacent its upper edge so that, a narrow strip l6 remains at iLs npprr wlgo, and ibis sirip is; postal, or othcrwisc pcrmancntly scoured in ii o nu'jnmnL'porlion of one of 'hc othcr iichets A or (1, preferably wl'zioont the upper edge of ticket; (l between t ciines of perforations 14 so as to lie between the foigiooi strip. it will he understood, however, that tickets A and Binny ho made of one strip of paper and ticket 1) provided. with a pcriori ted Zi,\llif or tickets B and (J iiirowisc movie from 11 single strip with ticket A provided with 21 perforated ship 18, seen in Fig. the drawings. The, same principle, of cooril is involved in each example or typo above mentioned, i o, two of the tiolicts bring mode on a sjnglo strip of pujicr will; pvri'orations lictwcon thorn so flint ilicy mny l u dctacheil, and the iLlilHl. ticket. bring :rsopw rate piece oi paper attached near will porl'orations to *zhc shcci; and also perforated so that it may he dctziciaod. i prefer i0 look-o the superposed tickets oi such limcnsions filial; tho iowcr orig c of film lower iiiclrct extends beyond iho wriw'ispomling edges of the so erposccl. oickois, and this iniermo i ate tic ct extends hcyomi only the upper ticket, "hi5 proviiics a stopped arranger ment of the free aligns of the rcspcctivo tickconvcnicnco in hzmdiing when interleaving the carbon sheets or for swarming; or detaching my ono or more of tho tickvts. The carlooi'l sheets if), iJWo in number, are (lctmihahly bound into llio pzui :llillP top of him binding edge and are zuiuoicnl to ho interleaved between iii: oppcr pair of iicl fits A and ii and liciwwn l.l!( lower {niii' ol tickets i i and i ill; will in n ivil lhzili lho (-ilg c opposilo ilw bound (,(lff ol' much sol oi iiclcvlh r islmi, 21 single odgc so llml but our. sci, mnl om: not only, 'mnylm lii'iozl at :i Limo i'oi' (liiliicl from the pod. This permits tho quick insertion ol the intorlcuvwl act. in a iypcwrilm without the ncrrssity oi rcglslrring or aiining tho three tickets and two carbons as would he the case in tho cvon'z 11hr tickets were detached. and loosnl.

Whnt i claim is:

i. A manifoid iziclrcl', sci. olongzztvil sheet provided ends with imcnl,

comprising an mti'n-nn-dinio iLs i.

ouch other.

and 21 second member consisting of :1 sim lar sheet cletuchohiy secured to the first sheet between the paraliol pcrforatlons in the latnecond incniher consisting of aher, whereby n oiuraiityoi'i superposed memhers are prork. ed, any do'rziched from the other memhe 'o without opnrnting said ()tlitfl momlicrs l'roin ran-h other. f f

3. A manifold ticket set v'lmprislng an clongutwl sheet provided ends with parallel rows of pcr'iomtioi'is and one of wl'iich. may be folrlodnpon itself upon onc of said perfo 1 rated rows to provide two mom-hers, and a second n'iernhc'r consisting of a shorter sheet having perforations adjacent one edge to provicio a stub and that is secured to the first slieet'liofiwcen the parallel perforations in the laif tor, the edges of said members farthest from the perforations being steppcd with respcoi, koench other whereby a pl'urniity oi" suporposed nninihers ore provided, any one of which may be readily gasped iiithe stepped edges and detached from the other members without separating said other members from each other.

4. i. manifold ticket set comprising an olongnicd shoot provided intermediate its ends with parallel rows of pm'l'orations and 'l'olcloil upon itself to provide two n'icmhcrs, uml a svcomi member consisting of :i nhortcr shoot (ioinclmlily secured to thvf'iirnt sheet liutwi-on l'lio pziz'nliolipol-lln'ations in the la!- ill', l.lli; oilgcs of mill incmliurh' l'urihunt from tho perforations lining stopped Willi respect to each other whm'cl'iy n plnrzility of superposed mmnhcrs; are provided, any one of which may he rczulily gmspoil at the stepped (loos Hill detached from the other members without, separating Said oiiioi' nmnhcrfl from Sighorl at Chicago, county of ook and State of illinois, this 23rd day of March lrEORGE H. BAUGHMAN. 

